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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1876
Page
2
The Marshall Messenger notes editor and proprietor SGHN LITTLEFIELD in a brief masthead notice highlighting leadership and ownership of the publication.
Reports note over ten million attending vamp meetings in America last summer with property used estimated at five million two hundred dollars. A New Yorker of notable fortune now valued at five hundred thousand. Canada will tax commercial travelers for sample goods, non refundable if not re-exported.
Public debt report shows principal outstanding 64,625,512 with interest accrued 6,990 held by United States. Treasury cash balance 2,092,566,579 and total debt 712,320,450. Decrease in debt this year 3,445,130. decrease since June 1 1576 1,560,908. Bonds issued to Pacific railroads noted. interest payable in lawful money.
The East notes that Jersey City public school teachers may not offer twenty days of gratuitous service this month as salary funds run dry. Other items include New York City fiscal data, New York Produce Exchange oat grade changes, and a Chicago railroad bond case facing a removal bid to the US Circuit Court by Aaron Bright et al.
A twelve citizen committee presented a petition by 000 Chicago business men urging Judge McAlister to resign over conduct in the Sullivan Hanford murder trial. The judge dismissed the matter saying it should go on file and he has nothing to say. no expectation of compliance.
Acting Secretary of the Interior General Gorham and Indian Bureau Commissioner Smith review measures to advance General Sheridan's Indian plans. Smith's report will be submitted soon. The War Department holds statements on Indians and agencies now under its temporary control.
A girl named Kitty Manning arrived at Tadianapolis from Greensburg in delicate condition and was sent to the poor farm. She claims her father is the author of her ruin and sent her away to be cared for by strangers. A mass of disturbing details follows about social collapse and alleged exploitation.
City authorities ordered the attacking woman removed to the county jail where she was taken to Joliet by the noon train. Her derangement is blamed on overexertion with sick children amid a string of robberies and murders reported in various locales.
From the London Times Inn field near the Welsh Harp at Henden a 400 yard straight course laid in grass hosts a wind driven wheeled apparatus carrying an artificial hare. Hounds chase the moving phantom as spectators watch a race like spectacle. Report notes cruelty concerns and questionable training value, with some praise from promoters and doubt on benefits.
Judge Paxson of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania defends the liberty to make wills, opposing courts substituting others’ notions for a testator’s wishes. He argues wills enable unequal distributions to aid families, reward affection, and punish disobedience, and warns against undue influence and sentimental equality. A London magistrate then hears a case where a boy spills milk with a liver in it, the frog involved, and he pays fourpence plus two shillings costs.
Washington's capital buzzes as dispatches cast doubt on the presidential outcome and thrill Republicans in the streets. The World estimates electoral votes with Hayes leading but Florida and North Carolina unspecified, while several papers predict varied results and heightened excitement across major centers.
A watcher follows two golden pheasants as they fight until one is mortally wounded and six companions maul the victor. The keeper explains such duels can erupt into a broader, deadly conflict unless he intervenes, likening it to an Irish shako in its cruelty and thinning of the flock.
Gen Meredith Read, the American minister to Greece, presented an item of unusual interest to the U S Department of State via Hon Hamilton Fish. The Athens Archaeological Society has excavated near the Acropolis, uncovering temple remains and inscriptions, with the standout find a treaty carved on the base of the southern wall of the Acropolis.
The Athenians and Coalcedon ians of the third year of the eighty third Olympiad 46 145 B G engraved on Pentelic marble long before Parthenon began under Pericles. A plaster cast was made, framed, and gifted to the state department in Washington, preserving a key diplomatical document cited by Thucydides Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.
The piece explains ground nuts or goubers grow underground like potatoes with stalks resembling clover. Hand picking is the main labor, grown in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Africa, India, and Brazil. It cites U S and African imports, crop yields, and Tennessee packaging and sale terms.
A volcanic island appeared off Sicily on July 10 1831 near Marsala about fifty miles from land. Captain Swinburne watched a 240 feet diameter crater spouting steam and forked lightning. Four months later Walter Scott visited, found dolphins and a robin dead, and a sea of brimstone fumes. The island soon vanished, leaving only a shoal.
Miss Bird travels in the Sandwich Islands and describes Mauna Loa’s burning basin and the Kilauea crater. She witnessed a vast lava lake with crimson fountain bursts, amid a roaring, terrifying yet terrible beauty. The excerpt ends with a joke on medical opinions.
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